True, and if this is all your server-side needs to be, while there's not much reason to prefer PHP for this above anything else, there's also no reason not to j

True, and if this is all your server-side needs to be, while there's not much reason to prefer PHP for this above anything else, there's also no reason not to just keep on cruising with PHP. My experience running PHP cloud services suggests that, operationally, PHP is a dream. It's the least problematic layer of the LAMP stack, at least once you've learned what the words "APC cache" mean.